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Aberystwyth University
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Display artist/maker:

Willem van der (the Younger) Velde

Born: 1633, Netherlands, Leiden   Died: 1707, UK, England, London

Painter. Son of Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-93), also a marine painter. Trained initially with his father until ca. 1648, then studied with Simon de Vlieger (1601-53). He worked in his father’s studio with his father, as head of workshop, signing his earliest paintings. Van de Velde and his father moved to London 1672/3 where they worked for Charles II in a studio in Queen’s House. He is best known for his captions of ships in stormy seascapes and royal yachts and men-of-war. After his father's death, he was officially present at important maritime events in order to depict them afterwards and also accompanied the English fleet to the Mediterranean for a year in the 1690s. His most famous works are e.g. Calm: Dutch Ships Coming to Anchor (c. 1655), The English Ship Resolution in a Gale (c. 1678) and The Gouden Leeuw at the Battle of Texel (1687). His paintings strongly influenced later artists such as Samuel Scott (1702-72), J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837).

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

A Gale PR321 Prints




 
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